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Emumundo's avatar

I watched a documentary on Woodstock and the first thing that struck me is that there were virtually no obese people. To the contrary everyone looked skinny. I grew up around that time and I certainly did not have a great diet, coke and French fries at the drug store, but no one was heavy. In my all girl high school there were 2 girls who were obese, and they would just be considered heavy today. We have to stop eating food- like substances. I’m a label reader and I was looking for a clean-ish frozen pizza and now there’s a yeast in it that’s grown on mold. Not even real yeast. And recently I have found propylene glycol in cake mixes. It wasn’t there before, why add radiator fluid to cake mixes. And many, many chemicals don’t have to even be labeled just..’ cuz. It’s really challenging to have a decent diet these days. I try to eat organic when I can, but I avoid any grain that’s not organic. They spray glysophate on grains to dessicate them right before harvesting to increase the yield. I’m trying to up my gardening game and figure out what I can forage. Our food system is kind of nuts.

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Jamie Simpkins Santos's avatar

They do that with organic as well I read.

Yes, we drank cola in the 70's and ate desserts and no one was fat. I believe it was in the 1990's they changed from real sugar in cola products to HFCS. A study by Canadian doctors showed that High Fructose Corn Syrup caused Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Syndrome in mice; basically cirrhosis of the Liver. You can find the research on Weston A. Price Foundation website. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-foods/the-double-danger-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#gsc.tab=0

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